Posted by
Steve on Monday, July 17, 2006 6:41:50 PM
There are news reports that June was the warmest on record. What that does not say is that the record only goes back 100-150 years with any accuracy. Records from that short a period of time are meant to be broken, and often.
Global warming believers will say that proves there is Global Warming. That does not prove global warming. It just proves that we had a June that was hotter than any recorded in the last 100 or so years. Do we have data on June 1006? No, we only have data on tree rings and the like. They can give us an indicator on the amount of moisture, they do not tell us much about the temperature of the area.
We do have relative temperature data. That suggests that maybe it was warmer 1000 years ago than it is today. The biggest evidence is the Vikings settlements in Greenland. When they settled in Greenland, they had very primitive agricultural techniques. Even with those primitive techniques, they were able to support a community of over 20,000 people. They were also able to support people to go exploring. That talks of surpluses in agricultural production. Maybe not every year, but often enough to allow them to do things other than just survive. A community like that could not survive in Greenland today using those same primitive agricultural techniques. The community would have starvation diets at best today. The community could not support even 5,000 people. The environment had to be warmer than it is today. Logic says that has to be the case.
Scare mongers of today are just trying to get money out of your pocket and into theirs. It may go through a government agency first, but that is the goal. We should demand real science from those that get the grants. We just allow junk science experiments conducted in a scientific manner by scientists to blind us to the truth. We are being played for fools. Many scientists are protesting the lack of scientific accountability in global warming science today. They are being shouted down by those that believe in global warming.
Global warming and other environmentalist junk is really a religion. There is faith and other activities. You cannot question any article of faith or be branded a heretic. That is what is going on today. It just makes me sick to see people believe these lies.